Settlers Uproot Olive Trees and Attack 65-year-old Shepherd

Tuesday February 25, 2014 18:03 by Chris Carlson - 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group

Israeli settlers destroyed 150 olive trees in Al-Khader, a Palestinian village south of Bethlehem, and assaulted an old Palestinian shepherd near Nablus, Monday at noon.

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Ahmed Salah, the coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Al-Khader, said that the settlers uprooted and destroyed more than 150 olive trees in a parcel of land owned by Yassin Dadu, the Alternative Information Center (AIC) reports.

In the northern West Bank, settlers from Itamar attacked 65-year-old shepherd Radi Hanani as he was rearing his flock to the east of Beit Furik, a Palestinian village south east of Nablus.